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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780800199104
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0800199103
Label: Columbia Tristar
Manufacturer: Columbia Tristar
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia Tristar
Release Date: November 04, 1997
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 20284
Studio: Columbia Tristar
Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 1994
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
TV Nation, which first aired in the summer of 1994, in its own small way, made history. Michael Moore, director of the shambling working-class documentaries Roger & Me and The Big One and the subsequent Bravo! cable program The Awful Truth, persuaded NBC to give him a run of hour-long shows that would enlist the talents of pop-culture correspondents from Karen Duffy to Steven Wright in the name of confrontational TV. Opening with a jump-cutting montage of loaded images, to the alternating synthesized plucked strings and heavy-metal guitar of tomandandy, and punctuated by nonsensical polls conducted by Widgery & Associates, TV Nation took Moore and his colleagues up (inside skyscrapers), down (into bomb shelters), and around the globe--even to the Ukraine--to confront the exploiters, polluters, and hypocrites threatening Moore's peaceable and generally liberal-minded view of the world.
Now, thanks to the miracle of videotape, you can see what you missed or want to see again and again--and even a little bit more. Volume 1 comprises the first show and the year-end special, as well as a segment about condoms ('for the snugger fit') too controversial to be aired. Can Yaphet Kotto get a taxi in New York City? Need to buy a cheap house--in the former Love Canal? Should the U.S. invade France to restore politeness? Even if Moore doesn't provide definitive answers, he makes asking such questions a necessary, if embarrassing, activity. Granted, Moore directed these shows when the American economy--and the popularity of political and financial authority figures--seemed much less robust (or much less hyped). But TV Nation will keep you laughing at the same time as you're spreading the fingers in front of your reddened face to witness the apocalypse through Moore's jaundiced eyes. --Robert Burns Neveldine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Hard-To-Find Classic
This series displayed Moore at a level seldom equalled since. He is funny, original and penetrating without being quite as annoyingly earnest as he's become more recently.
And we get a younger Janeane Garofalo at her irreverent best. Before she left Moore's gang to become a comedienne, she was a crusading investigative attack journalist, spearheading a landing party on a private Connecticut beach.
The show was suprising for its time: it was a summer replacement on network ... Read More
Rating: - The potential of a dead medium
Moore, like Gore vidal and Greg Palast, thrives as an angry voice of dissent. Here in TV Nation, the satire is sharply pointed and wickedly funny. An excellent gift for the person who has the rare talent for simultaneously watching TV and thinking about what he is seeing and hearing.
Rating: - Buy this video!
It's rare to find something that is funny and important at the same time, but Michael Moore has managed to do it for the last 10 years. This was a groundbreaking show, even though it only lasted a few seasons and was cancelled twice (even after winning an Emmy). Michael Moore is someone who unconditionally stands up for the little guy, which makes it all the more amazing that he was able to get his show on NBC! After criticizing some of NBC's advertisers, his show was quickly cancelled. TV Nation ... Read More
Rating:  - EP-mode gave poor quality
This tape was recorded in the EP mode and my $400, 4-head VCR had difficulty tracking it. In fact, the video was snowy throughout and only passably watchable. The audio portion was fine. I've watched other EP-mode tapes, such as the "Twin Peaks" series that has five episodes per tape, with no problems. I got a second copy to see if it was just the tape. But the second one was just as bad. The content is fine, although rather than watching two episodes, I'd rather see greatest hits since the original ... Read More
Rating: - Michael Moore...a subversive genius
Michael Moore rescues this British citizens view of our distant cousins across the great pond. Where it often seems to us on this side that America can all too often be a hell- on- earth uncaring, money obsessed, superficial, hyper unequal and very brutal society, Moore shows us a truly human(e) side to the story. Moore fights for the little guy and gal and often pulls off some startling victories (as the current series 'the awful truth' is showing).
Moore achives this in several ways: through ... Read More
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